[Nut-upsuser] Installing Powercom BNT-2000AP on CentOS 5.6

[Manuel Wolfshant]

On 11/14/2011 03:56 AM, Charles Lepple wrote:
> On Nov 13, 2011, at 2:58 PM, Jonathan Borg wrote:
>
>> Hi Guys,
>>
>> Am a Linux newbie and need some help setting up this UPS with NUT on Cent OS 5.6. So basically I have the following packages installed with yum:
>>
>> libusb-devel-0.1.12-5.1.x86_64
>> libusb-devel-0.1.12-5.1.i386
>> libusb-0.1.12-5.1.x86_64
>> libusb-0.1.12-5.1.i386
>> nut-2.2.2-1.el5.x86_64
> You may want to find a newer RPM (from rawhide?) - we're on 2.6.2 now.

With my Fedora packager and  centos QA hats on in the same time:  
rawhide binaries cannot be run on any CentOS release. creating CentOS 
binaries from the rawhide nut.src.rpm is possible but not at all trivial.